A former police officer is jailed for running a “county lines” drug supply network that moves cocaine from the Manchester area to rural parts of Devon. Prosecutors say the scheme involved establishing trafficking routes and distribution activity outside the officer’s former policing area, supplying drugs to a smaller town in Devon. The reporting states that the operation resulted in the shipment of thousands of pounds’ worth of cocaine from Manchester to the Devon location. The sources agree the defendant used his background and connections to facilitate the network, and that he is now convicted and sentenced to imprisonment. The articles describe the case as part of broader efforts to disrupt county lines operations, which use organised networks to supply drugs to locations beyond major cities. While the outlets provide overlapping core details about the defendant, the routes, and the drug type, they do not provide additional sentencing specifics in the text provided. The reporting overall attributes the wrongdoing to the defendant’s organised role in setting up and running the trafficking operation and notes the central cocaine shipments from Manchester to Devon.